From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 59381 invoked by alias); 5 Jul 2018 17:10:11 -0000 Mailing-List: contact libc-alpha-help@sourceware.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: libc-alpha-owner@sourceware.org Received: (qmail 59362 invoked by uid 89); 5 Jul 2018 17:10:10 -0000 Authentication-Results: sourceware.org; auth=none X-Spam-SWARE-Status: No, score=-2.5 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,SPF_PASS autolearn=ham version=3.3.2 spammy=sk:america, milk, H*r:0700 X-HELO: 9pmail.ess.barracuda.com Date: Thu, 05 Jul 2018 17:10:00 -0000 From: "Maciej W. Rozycki" To: Carlos O'Donell CC: , Florian Weimer , Alan Modra Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 2/2] libc-abis: Define ABSOLUTE ABI [BZ #19818][BZ #23307] In-Reply-To: <56d6a870-7caa-5f55-81fd-4565525a36ed@redhat.com> Message-ID: References: <87sh5a38tz.fsf@mid.deneb.enyo.de> <87b6fb82-09cf-e79c-79a4-281a0a297a64@redhat.com> <56d6a870-7caa-5f55-81fd-4565525a36ed@redhat.com> User-Agent: Alpine 2.00 (DEB 1167 2008-08-23) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Return-Path: macro@mips.com X-BESS-Apparent-Source-IP: 12.201.5.32 X-SW-Source: 2018-07/txt/msg00136.txt.bz2 Hi Carlos, > > +* The GNU C Library now has correct support for ABSOLUTE symbols > > + (SHN_ABS-relative symbols). Previously such ABSOLUTE symbols were > > + relocated incorrectly or in some cases discarded. The GNU linker can > > + make use of this newer semantics, but it must communicate it to the > > Suggest: > "make use of the corrected semantics, ..." Hmm, "semantics" is uncountable rather than plural[1], so I'm not sure if "this semantics" is actually a grammatical mistake (just like "Can I drink this milk?" is fine), but I'm fine with your suggestion. I actually considered using "the" to avoid having this discussion. ;) Committed with your suggestion applied then. Thank you for your review. Maciej References: [1]